Jack who wrote Aether Torrent

Jack who wrote Aether Torrent

@jackscarab.bsky.social

Writer, teacher, ๐Ÿž&๐ŸŒน socialist, somehow Oklahoman. Author of YA fantasy Aether Torrent. Buy it and then read and review it! https://lnk.bio/JackDuffe https://books2read.com/aethertorrent ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ“š #booksky

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Trump, Mitch McConnell Clash In Oval Office Over Where They Are

Trump, Mitch McConnell Clash In Oval Office Over Where They Are https://theonion.com/trump-mitch-mcconnell-clash-in-oval-office-over-where-they-are/

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Pentagon Tells Congress First Week of Iran War Cost More Than $11.3 Billion

Pentagon officials told lawmakers in a closed-door briefing that they estimated the cost of the war against Iran had exceeded $11.3 billion โ€” in the first six days alone, according to three people familiar with the briefing.

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Can this be a solution?

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'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:

www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

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Gaza Sunbirds has a mobile cinema where they move between camps providing much needed joy for the children of Gaza by showing kids films such as Ratatouille.

This is a much needed respite for all of the kids in Gaza, and with our help, we can make a difference. Donation link is in the comments.

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yeah the thing is that while zoomers are on the whole to the left of the American political spectrum, the average Zoomer Republican in the United States would get a PREVENT intervention if they lived in the UK

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Laker Fans Furious As Bam Adebayo Dies In Even Worse Helicopter Crash

Laker Fans Furious As Bam Adebayo Dies In Even Worse Helicopter Crash

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Cosigned on the anxiety. Even if you donโ€™t want a comic a donation to help so really kick ass creatives would go a long way!

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when that fateful day arrives, i hope he becomes a slimer

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As an ethical Al user, I begin each session by asking the chatbot to give a stolen data acknowledgement. It is an important first step toward justice.
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A dashboard-style screenshot labeled โ€œOpenAIโ€ shows a usage analytics page with the heading โ€œBrowse models provided by OpenAI (Terms of Service)โ€ and โ€œ31 modelsโ€ in the top right, beneath which a stacked bar chart titled โ€œTokens processedโ€ displays daily activity from roughly May 10 to August 6 with the vertical axis marked in billions up to 100B, the bars in May and late May reaching close to 90โ€“100 billion tokens per day with multiple coloured segments stacked to represent different models, followed by a sharp drop in early to mid June to around 20โ€“40 billion tokens per day, and continuing through July and early August at generally lower levels with fluctuations and occasional spikes, the coloured segments varying in size across days, and the overall visual suggesting a significant decline in total tokens processed over the summer period.

ChatGPT usage plummets in summer. When students are cheating on their homework?

by Bluesky user @joeonhere.bsky.social
via futurism.com/openai-use-c...

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Armed man rammed vehicle into Michigan synagogue and was fatally shot by security, AP source says A man armed with a rifle rammed a vehicle into a major synagogue in a Detroit suburb and was fatally shot by security.

A guy rammed his car through a door at Detroitโ€™s largest synagogue and got out with a gun and was shot by security before he could massacre everyone inside.

And yes all synagogues that can afford it have security. And yes itโ€™s exactly because of situations like this that they do.

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Dear Temple Israel Family,
Everyone is safe. All 140 students in our Susan and Harold Loss Early Childhood Center, our amazing staff, our courageous teachers, and our heroic security personnel are all accounted for and safe.
As you have no doubt heard, Temple Israel was the victim of a terrorist gunman who was confronted and neutralized by our security personnel who are truly heroes. Our teachers followed their training and kept the children safe and calm.
We are deeply and humbly grateful to our teachers, staff, security, law enforcement, and Shenendoah Country Club that welcomed us, fed us, and sheltered our staff, teachers, children, and parents. What incredible neighbors we have. What incredible police force we have
This note is coming to you before we know anything about our future programming or services, or any investigation. We wanted you to know we are safe, and we love you all.

A statement from Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan:

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[bangs pots and pans] SAM ALTMAN'S SISTER IS SUING HIM FOR REPEATED CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ASSAULT

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every jew in the world could be gone and the rich would still exploit the poor and you'd have to invent us as an explanation

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screenshot of 2019 fda notice that says: Public Notification: Big Penis contains hidden drug ingredient. The Food and Drug Administration is advising consumers not to purchase or use Big Penis, a product promoted for sexual enhancement. This product was identified during an examination of international mail shipments. .

"The Food and Drug Administration is advising consumers not to purchase or use Big Penis"

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Itโ€™s peak crawfish season, but Louisiana peeling plants are empty: โ€˜I've lost all hopeโ€™ Shortage of H-2B visas threatens Louisiana's $640m crawfish industry, leaving the state's 20 crawfish processors with no option to hire migrant workers.

It's crawfish season and Louisiana's crawfish processing plants are at a standstill because there is no migrant labor www.theadvocate.com/acadiana/new...

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So if using AI actually does erode human cognition the way studies suggest, then it's a feature instead of a bug?

The world is gross enough without "take away people's ability to think so we can sell it back to them" being on the list.

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Bar graph showing annual deforestation in Brazilian Amazon from 1988-2024. Peak of 29K sq km in 1995, significant spike during early 2000s, recent increase under Bolsonaro in 2021, followed by decline.

Amazon rainforest deforestation falls to a 9 year low. But still much to do...

via www.instagram.com/chartrdaily/...

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Telling the world you ran out of bombs after sucker-punching world superpowers <checks notes> Venezuela and Iran is not a flex. In fact, it makes us look like the blowhard paper tiger we are. You killed public education to fund the military for decades and ran out of bombs in two weeks

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Honestly rules that they are not rushing this and forcing brutal crunch after the success of the first one, we love to see it

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I did a MONTH in Japan, Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Hiroshima. We did buses a few times, but other than that, it was all trains and it was absolutely wonderful.

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YES OR NO: Is AI-generated content art?

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This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast.

Theyโ€™ll play this in museums in future.

(๐ŸŽฅ LCI ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท)

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We cannot stop mass deportations without seriously reckoning with the American obsession with arrests and prosecutions.

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hereโ€™s a crazy fact: more Americans have been killed in disputes over parking spots than on the NYC subway this year

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โ€ข@SecDuffy: "I'm a Republican, and I love transit...
You should be able to have your 14-year-old daughter get on a metro train in New York City at 7 o'clock at night and feel safe. And there's no way in hell I would ever put my daughter on the MTA in New York."

never ceases to amaze me how the modern conservative movement is full of the most pathetic, cowardly people on earth

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Exhausted Nation Lacks Strength To Form Opinion On Donald Glover Being Voice Of Yoshi

Exhausted Nation Lacks Strength To Form Opinion On Donald Glover Being Voice Of Yoshi https://theonion.com/exhausted-nation-lacks-strength-to-form-opinion-on-donald-glover-being-voice-of-yoshi/

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Terry Pratchett in a blue jacket and Akubra hat holding a young owl for release.

Eleven years since you crossed the black sands. I wish I could say that the world is better than you left it (although it will always be better for having had you in it) but at least there is a new Young Sam to help carry on the Pratchett name and ethos. Love you always โค๏ธ

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Ruth Wilson Gilmore said, โ€œNo abolitionist who is a true abolitionist wants to save money. What we want is for the money to be spent, to enhance, and support human life so that it can flourish in a way that doesnโ€™t destroy the planet. Weโ€™re not about cost-savings.โ€œ Saving lives, not saving money.

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